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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: SUBURBS Matches Found: 102 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A NORTHERN SUBURB, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nature selects the longest way Last Line: Is only not to be disgraced. Subject(s): Suburbs A SETTING, by DONALD REVELL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is nothing orphic, nothing foreign Last Line: Became the best of you Subject(s): Summer; Suburbs; Contentment A WINDMILL MAKES A STATEMENT, by CATE MARVIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You think I like to stand all day, all night Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Suburbs; Male-female Relations AMERICAN MYSTIC, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out of some toasty leaf-burrow she wallows into the cold Last Line: Bare-toothed, edgy. Subject(s): Snow; Suburbs; Wolves AN ARBOR, by LINDA GREGERSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The world's a world of trouble, your mother must Subject(s): Suburbs ANDY, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH Poem Source First Line: I'm sitting in this casino restaurant Last Line: And play your favorite %numbers: 3, 13 and 33 Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Suburbs BACHELOR SONG, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH Poem Source First Line: It's saturday night and lisa Last Line: Like a whistled song Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Suburbs BEACH, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH Poem Source First Line: While they met with the real estate brokers Last Line: They were going over bids, strategies Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Suburbs BOY OR GIRL, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: White rows of suburbs alternate with trees Last Line: Turn off your light and take the nighttime in Subject(s): Youth; Suburbs; Night COUNTING, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH Poem Source First Line: I'd walk close to buildings counting Last Line: With the foul ball, waving for tv Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Suburbs DARK MORNING, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH Poem Source First Line: Mom woke me. Power was out Last Line: And the stinging smell of menthol Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Suburbs DECKS, by ROBERT SCHAEFFER PHILLIPS Poem Source First Line: In the fair fields of suburban Subject(s): Suburbs EASY, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH Poem Source First Line: When mom screwed up the courage she drove to bohack's Last Line: Freezer, vapor rolling out the sides and down her legs Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Suburbs FERRYMEN, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH Poem Source First Line: The parents in our town ferried us Last Line: The good witch was good and the bad bad Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Suburbs FROM THE SUBURBS, by DOLLIE CAROLINE MAITLAND RADFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It rushes home, our own express Last Line: Does travel daily. Alternate Author Name(s): Radford, Ernest, Mrs. Subject(s): Suburbs GAY, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH Poem Source First Line: Margie was a sprinter, fastest girl Last Line: Stockings. Are you sure? Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Suburbs GUINEVERE IN THE SUBURBS, by KARIN WISIOL Poem Source First Line: Arkansas-african Last Line: Rent the heart's hothouse %forever Subject(s): Suburbs HAIRCUT, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH Poem Source First Line: Three old jewish men sit ahead of grandpa. One has a Last Line: Is pat it and wish it well Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Suburbs HER, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is no noisier place than the suburbs, Subject(s): Suburbs HOUSEWIFE, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Occasional mornings when an earyl fog Subject(s): Housewives; Suburbs HOUSEWIFE, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Occasional mornings when an earyl fog Last Line: A lifeline, how it chooses to run obscurely %in her hand, before her Subject(s): Housewives; Suburbs IN CHEEVER COUNTRY, by DANA GIOIA Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Half an hour north of grand central Subject(s): Cheever, John (1912-1982); Country Life; Railroads; Suburbs; Railways; Trains IN CHEEVER COUNTRY, by DANA GIOIA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Half an hour north of grand central Last Line: To the modest places which contain our lives Subject(s): Cheever, John (1912-1982); Country Life; Railroads; Suburbs IN HERITAGE FARMS, SETTLED, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: In their tennis whites, their pastel izods, all day the women Last Line: Of the hornworm inching toward the wings of the phoenix moth. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Consumerism; Discontent; Popular Culture - United States; Suburbs; Estrangement; Outcasts; Dissatisfaction IN THE SUBURBS, by AARON KRAMER Poem Source First Line: District by disrict, borough by borough Last Line: Before they're free? Past what grim door %must they blunder? Subject(s): Suburbs IN THE SUBURBS, by JANICE M. LYNCH Poem Source First Line: You and I erect a pageant of peace Last Line: A place where the world is always %waiting to be born Subject(s): Suburbs IN THE SUBURBS, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's no way out Subject(s): Suburbs IN THE SUBURBS, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's no way out Subject(s): Suburbs IN THE SUBURBS, by MICHAEL UMPHREY Poem Source First Line: The wilderness is gone, we believe Subject(s): Suburbs ISN'T THAT BEAUTIFUL, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH Poem Source First Line: When I opened my eyes Last Line: Don't mock your mother Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Suburbs JACK NICKLAUS, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH Poem Source First Line: My father follows jack nicklaus Last Line: Puts his finger to his lips %and says, shh Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Suburbs KEY, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH Poem Source First Line: I have memorized the coastline Last Line: And whispered, this belongs to me Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Suburbs KILLJOY, by EDWARD FIELD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When my mother and father Last Line: Artist / & / killjoy Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce Subject(s): Suburbs; Anti-semitism; Family Life; Fathers LAWYER, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH Poem Source First Line: In the outer office, there were mossy rugs with coffee stains Last Line: Smiled again, showing all the tartar on her teeth Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Suburbs LAY IT DOWN, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH Poem Source First Line: Brigit, I took a bus through your state Last Line: I tell the man, but that sounds right Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Suburbs LIVING ALONE, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH Poem Source First Line: You take the homeless guy Last Line: Cooking as you climb the stairs Subject(s): Cities; Long Island (n.y.); Suburbs LOOKING FOR AN APARTMENT, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH Poem Source First Line: I suppose I could go on living on chinese food Last Line: Walk in shivering, see if it feels like home Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Suburbs LOVE IN VEGAS, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH Poem Source First Line: I thought money was love when you Last Line: And hit the bed in one another's arms Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Suburbs MARY, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH Poem Source First Line: I promise not to touch you if we pull Last Line: And lay it back upon you like a blanket Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Suburbs MIDDLESEX, by JOHN BETJEMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gaily into ruislip gardens Last Line: Long in kensal green and highgate silent under soot and stone Subject(s): Middlesex, England; Suburbs MIDWAY, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH Poem Source First Line: At least he knows when to get drunk Last Line: Half the world is better than him %half worse Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Suburbs MRS. BRITT'S, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH Poem Source First Line: She wore her black hair twisted around chopsticks, or Last Line: Opened the door, got in, the car sinking with his weight %and drove us home Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Suburbs NAPLES, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH Poem Source First Line: You come out the maze of alleys by the sea Last Line: Up sauce with your bread. Delicious Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Suburbs NEIGHBORS, THROWING KNIVES, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the woods at the corner of our yards Last Line: Trellised vines, boxwoods manicured by wives. Subject(s): Hunting; Knives; Neighbors; Suburbs; Hunters; Daggers NOBODY'S HELL, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH Poem Source First Line: At the bus stop on the first frigid Last Line: Someplace warm, someplace that is nobody's hell Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Suburbs NORTHPORT, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH Poem Source First Line: The girl who fucked was margaret pritchard Last Line: Good grades, staying out of rumors Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Suburbs NOT MY LIFE, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH Poem Source First Line: Her name was lisa, the fourth Last Line: And know I will be old in a blink Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Suburbs PARTNER, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH Poem Source First Line: At 2 a.M. I rode the subway to manhattan Last Line: Ah got married today Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Suburbs PICNIC, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A mother and child activate the lawn Last Line: The yard explodes. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Discontent; Suburbs; Estrangement; Outcasts; Dissatisfaction PIG'S LUNGS, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH Poem Source First Line: They only called it a dissection Last Line: Going up our mouths, into our chests Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Pigs; Suburbs POEM FROM THE SUBURBS, by DAN QUISENBERRY Poem Source First Line: There are churchs %on the news Last Line: But miss jeremiah %and lamentations Subject(s): Suburbs PRAISE YOU HARRY GORDON, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH Poem Source Last Line: Shirt, shoes, trousers, underpants, teeth Subject(s): Cities; Long Island (n.y.); Mankind; Suburbs REMEMBERING, by BALOIAN Poem Source First Line: Where stone fences merge Last Line: The dark hands of water Subject(s): Memory; Suburbs REPAIRS, by CHRIS SEMANSKY Poem Source First Line: In the suburbs of new jersey Last Line: And the muscles in his stomach %start to convulse as he wonders why %he never got the damned thing f Subject(s): Suburbs RICE, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH Poem Source First Line: I didn't know rice until I traded places with rusty and went next door to eat Last Line: Husband and cleared her throat. Rusty just hung his head, like his brothers, and %chewed his mother' Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Rice; Suburbs ROCK: CHORUSES, SELS., by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I journeyed to the suburbs, and there I was told Last Line: If the weather is foul we stay at home and reas the papers Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): Suburbs; Travel RONNY, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH Poem Source First Line: During a heart attack, my favorite uncle Last Line: And just enough money for a used camaro Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Suburbs SACRED OBJECTS, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am taking part in a great experiment Subject(s): Suburbs; Writing & Writers SACRED OBJECTS, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am taking part in a great experiment Subject(s): Suburbs; Writing And Writers SCREENING, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A society intent on living in the present tense Last Line: Of moonlessness overlooking a sea? Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States; Suburbs; Television; Tv SELF-PORTRAIT WITH RADIO, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH Poem Source First Line: A blue plastic radio on the table Last Line: Him, his radio, his struggle for happiness Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Suburbs SHAKER HEIGHTS, by MICHAEL CERAOLO Poem Source First Line: The city is a half-walled castle Last Line: And almost no one sees anything wrong in this Subject(s): Shaker Heights, Ohio; Suburbs SHORT SONG, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH Poem Source First Line: The self is a ship in the bottle Last Line: Or the way home Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Suburbs SLEEPING WITH GRANDPA, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH Poem Source First Line: Beneath king-size bedclothes Last Line: I think the pulling sheet %is his loose skin Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Suburbs SLOUGH, by JOHN BETJEMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, friendly bombs, and fall on slough Last Line: The earth exhales Subject(s): Slough, England; Suburbs SNOW IN THE SUBURBS, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every branch big with it Last Line: And we take him in. Subject(s): Snow; Suburbs SPLENDOR, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH Poem Source First Line: When I was fourteen reading rebecca Last Line: By the sea was as blank as the green glass %of the shut off magnavox Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Suburbs STANDING UP STIFF, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH Poem Source First Line: When I told my mom I hated her Last Line: Standing up stiff Subject(s): Absence; Children; Divorce; Long Island (n.y.); Suburbs SUBURB, by UMBERTO SABA Poem Source First Line: Decaying suburb, makeshift and squalid, first Last Line: And the clear eyes in his face playfully laugh Subject(s): Suburbs SUBURB, by ANNE STEVENSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No time, no time Last Line: And they absolve me from waking. Who can accuse me? %I am beyond blame Subject(s): Suburbs SUBURBAN, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yesterday mrs. Friar phoned. 'mr ciardi Last Line: When even these suburbs will give up their dead Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Suburbs SUBURBAN, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yesterday mrs. Friar phoned. 'mr ciardi Last Line: When even these suburbs shall give up their dead Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Suburbs SUBURBAN ARGUMENTS, by JENNIFER CRAIG PIXLEY Poem Source First Line: The deer leaves sign where she stands Last Line: Where are you? What have you found there? Subject(s): Suburbs SUBURBAN BISON, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Joshua and I had decided to go bowling Subject(s): Suburbs; Buffaloes SUBURBAN DAWN, by HENRY MORTON ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing is paler than suburban dawn; Last Line: The whistle of the first train into town. Subject(s): Dawn; Suburbs; Sunrise SUBURBAN IDYL, by POLLY CHASE Poem Text First Line: They are clearing ground to build a house Last Line: And children's arms around us like a wall! Subject(s): Calm; Family Life; Flowers; Suburbs; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Relatives SUBURBAN MADRIGAL, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sitting here in my house Last Line: A gorgeous gree Subject(s): Suburbs SUBURBAN MADRIGAL, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sitting here in my house Last Line: A gorgeous green sunset streaking his panes Subject(s): Suburbs SUBURBAN PARADISE, by PETER J. STORR Poem Source First Line: Mildewed silence smothers south street Subject(s): Suburbs SUBURBAN REPORT, by J. ALLYN ROSSER Poem Source First Line: In the suburns of new jersey, some 20 miles Last Line: To shape the ancient o, the skulls %outlined beneath them mouthing cheese Subject(s): New Jersey; Suburbs SUBURBAN WIFE'S SONG, by ROBERT HUTCHINSON Poem Source First Line: When you are gone, I lie upon your bed Last Line: And do not know how far away you are Subject(s): Housewives; Suburbs SUBURBAN'S LIFE, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: Across his field the farmer trudged Last Line: For the child of the city and land. Subject(s): Country Life; Fields; Suburbs; Pastures; Meadows; Leas SUBURBIA, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Living here is like walking on your own shit Subject(s): Suburbs SUBURBIA I, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is with the bird Subject(s): Suburbs SUBURBIA II, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The silence of the suburb Subject(s): Suburbs SUCH A GOOD DANCER, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH Poem Source First Line: Desperate to be part of the night Last Line: Such a good dancer Subject(s): Dancing And Dancers; Long Island (n.y.); Suburbs SURROUNDED, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Suddenly my suburb is surrounded by churches Subject(s): Suburbs; Christianity; Churches; Cathedrals THE CHASTE STRANGER, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All the sexually active people in westport Subject(s): Sex; Suburbs THE MAID SUBURBAN, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: I must confess that I'm afraid Last Line: Give me the sweet suburban! Subject(s): Cities; Courtship; Man-woman Relationships; Suburbs; Women; Urban Life; Male-female Relations THE POET'S SEAT; AN IDYLL OF THE SUBURBS, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was an elm-tree root of yore Last Line: On 'insects and their architecture.' Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Suburbs THE SUBURB, by ANNE STEVENSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No time, no time Subject(s): Suburbs THE SUBURBANS, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Forgetting sounds that we no longer hear Last Line: Our limited salvation is the word. Subject(s): Conformity; Poetry & Poets; Self-consciousness; Suburbs; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism THESE SUBURBS, by KERRI BROSTROM MASTERS Poem Source First Line: There suburbs are inside us now Last Line: These suburbs are inside us now Subject(s): Suburbs THREE BLIND DATES, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH Poem Source First Line: She has chosen a beautiful italian cafe Last Line: All those relatives in concentration camps Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Suburbs THREE-HANDED FUGUE, by PHYLLIS GOTTLIEB Poem Source First Line: Into suburbia between eight and nine Last Line: And celebrating in criscrisp sheets together %pull down the house of cards Subject(s): Suburbs TO AN AMERICAN POET JUST DEAD, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the boston sunday herald just three lines Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Suburbs TO AN AMERICAN POET JUST DEAD, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the boston sunday herald just three lines Last Line: It's just as well that now you save your breath Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Suburbs WALKING WOUNDED, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH Poem Source First Line: Spring came and we had to hide our boners Last Line: And big, while she stroked and licked it? Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Suburbs WALLS, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH Poem Source First Line: In the suburbs our lives were seperated Last Line: That couldn't even stay up in the head Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Suburbs WAYS OF CONQUEST, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You invaded my country by accident Subject(s): Suburbs WAYS OF CONQUEST, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You invaded my country by accident Last Line: What I invaded has %invaded me Subject(s): Suburbs WHEREVER YOU WANT, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH Poem Source First Line: When I said fuck you to my father for not paying child sup- Last Line: To juice, smeared the rest back up again, and again, until it all dissolved Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Suburbs |
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